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Bruno Waterfield argues that the the EU conspiracy is exploiting the Greece crisis to a create a EU wide policy to bind all EU "states" in a financial straitjacket, so designed that it is beyond the reach of national parliaments or referendums.

Yeah. I'm following the vote right now and all that is going on around it. This is kinda tense. I expect a 'positive' outcome for the vote. But what will the Greeks in the streets do? How will they react?

BTW, EURef says the Greek police have run out of tear-gas. Austerity related?

Which is where we come back to the Germans and the game they are playing with Greece. Dr El-Erian said that though Greece leaving the euro is what must be done, ‘No one wants to go down in history for being responsible for this, not Greek politicians, Mrs Merkel doesn’t want it, no one in the EU wants it, no one in the IMF wants it. So because no one wants to go down as responsible for this historic decision, it doesn’t get taken, Greece continues to be stuck in this active inertia, and things get worse.’

In other words, the Germans and EU powers running Greece now know the answer is to get the country out of the eurozone. But for political reasons no one, least of all Mrs Merkel, will say so.

So this dishonest game is being played of putting so much pressure on Greece, of heaping so much humiliation on the politicians and the people, that at some point they will break and say ‘Enough, we are getting out.’

The EU was formed for the specific reason of constraining Germany. But Germany is now a major power on the global scene, and like Gulliver, is chaffing at being bound by the EU. So Germany's policy is to make it impossible for countries such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland etc to remain in the EU, while denying that they had anything in pushing them out when they are forced to leave.

On the eve of a major FinMinCom session in Brussels to ‘approve’ the Troika demands regarding Greek cuts and debt schedules, The Slog has unearthed sensational allegations being made in Greece, France and Germany this morning. The gist of these is that Berlin wishes to engineer a technical sovereign failure – perhaps even with Greek bondholders’ covert approval – and leave the Greek Government without a voluntary bondholder haircut to stave off default.